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<P>LongTail At Marist is an intercollegiate security initiative
to analyze SSH Brute force attacks and
statistically analyze them.
<P>Continuing cooperating institutions and companies are:
<UL>
<LI><a href="http://www.marist.edu">Marist College</A> in 
Poughkeepsie, NY
<LI><a href="http://www.bard.edu">Bard College</A> in 
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
<LI><a href="http://www.newpaltz.edu/">SUNY New Paltz</a>
in New Paltz, NY 
</UL>
<P>Special thanks to
<UL>
<LI><a href="http://www.renditioninfosec.com/">Rendition Infosec</a> for 
their contribution of a 12 million line <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kippo">Kippo </a>
log file with 1.5 million login attempts.
<LI>Thanks to Bob Martin for his contribution of 4.3 million lines of Kippo logs with 
2.5 million Kippo Login attempts.
<LI>A Huge thanks to AbdelRahman Abdou (Carleton University, Canada), David Barrera 
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland), and Paul C. van Oorschot (Carleton University, Canada)
for the contribution of over 17 million login attempts from 2014-2015 from their
paper <A href="http://www.netsec.ethz.ch/publications/papers/passwords15-abdou.pdf">
What Lies Beneath? Analyzing Automated SSH Bruteforce Attacks</a>  Their data pushes
the first sign of SSHPsycyos well into 2014 as well as extending the age range of
several other botnets and IP addresses.  
</UL>

<P>A HUGE thanks to <A href="https://elastichosts.com/?utm_source=marist.edu&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=thankyou">ElasticHosts cloud servers</a> which have been so helpful to LongTail.


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